Sep 17, 2018
Who dares speak the truth in a totalitarian state?
Why, the Jester alone can bare such a fate!
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Who dares speak the truth in a totalitarian state?
Why, the Jester alone can bare such a fate!
Let them think of you as idiotically stupid, or let them think of you as astoundingly callous, if that be what it takes to get them to think at all!
Tell a man a jest, and he can laugh for a while.
Teach him how to jest, and you're out of a job.
Use your sharp wit to help dissolve tense situations at the royal court.
Nasrudin walked into a teahouse and declaimed, "The moon is more useful than the sun." — "Why?", he was asked. — "Because at night we need the light more."
Nasrudin
I think Dogberry and Verges are proof that just because someone isn't a genius, doesn't mean you shouldn't hear what they have to say.